Second-year occupational students from the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans work together to rewire a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center for children with motor impairments.
Kristy Tran, left, and Clara Bausa, both second-year occupational therapy students at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, apply stickers to a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center. A team of students and Kerrie Ramsdell, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, rewired six cars at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs, for children with motor impairments.
Charles King, a second-year occupational therapy student at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, tightens a screw inside a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center. A team of students and Kerrie Ramsdell, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, rewired six cars at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs, for children with motor impairments.
Megan Bernard, an occupational therapist at Launch Therapy Center in Denham Springs, left, helps position 4-year-old Holland Alford inside her battery-powered Mercedes-Benz replica. Alford is one of six children at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs, who will benefit from a project conducted by a team from the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans in which graduate students rewired and adapted battery-powered cars for children with motor impairments.
Lauren Gautreaux adds a red button to a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center for children with motor impairments.
Kerrie Ramsdell, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, top, examines the wiring of a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center. Ramsdell and a team of second-year occupational students rewired six cars at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs, for children with motor impairments.
Sarah An, left, and Lauren Gautreaux, both second-year occupational therapy students at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, work together to rewire a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center in Denham Springs, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs.
Employees from Launch Therapy Center in Denham Springs work together to cut a piece of PVC pipe that would be later used as additional support for a battery-powered car. Six cars were rewired and adapted for children with motor impairments.
Skyllar Burke, a second-year occupational therapy student at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, tightens a screw inside a battery-powered car at Launch Therapy Center. A team of students under Kerrie Ramsdell, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, rewired six cars at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs, for children with motor impairments.
From left, Chantelle Varnado, executive director of Launch Therapy Center in Denham Springs, Tanja Foil, representative from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, and Hunter Harkey, 3, pose for a picture following the BCBS Foundation’s $10,000 donation for a sensory garden at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs.
Chantelle Varnado, executive director of Launch Therapy Center in Denham Springs, left, and Tanja Foil, representative from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, watch as Hunter Harkey, 3, breaks ground following the BCBS Foundation’s $10,000 donation for a sensory garden at Launch Therapy Center, a non-profit organization that provides services to children with special needs.
Jama Scivicque looks at the board of ideas for the Launch Therapy Center's Sensory Garden, which includes a barefoot path made out of various textures from wood planks to stones.
City of Denham Springs horticulturist Dale Zuelke explains what will be in Launch Therapy Center’s sensory garden, which received a $10,000 donation from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation.
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